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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depending on the school, you won’t have much of a choice. Many of them redshirt kids back to may for K entry. [/quote]

So how is this decided? My June boy was not redshirted by the school, but my friend's son was. They are 1 year apart and in the same class. Watching the class engage, I feel like my son is too young for K. He's that one kid who doesn't sit still, doesn't listen the first time, is constantly disturbing other children, making poor choices, etc. Hopefully behaviors really do level out as they age.[/quote]

He’s a year younger.  These are not his true peers.  Maybe his last preschool did not prepare him, especially if it was play based.  [/quote]

His entire class isn't one year older. I just know of this one child in particular because I know his mother outside of school. His last wasn't play- based, but it doesn't seem like he was prepared at all which is why I'm so curious how it's decided whether to redshirt or not. For the record, I know my friend had zero plans to redshirt until the school pretty much said you can redshirt or be rejected, choice is yours.[/quote]

I'd rather be rejected as it's not the right school fit to hold back a child based on its easier for the school vs. putting the time into the child to help them be successful.  [/quote]

Spending an extra year raising them is literally putting in the time.[/quote]

That's not really how it works.  And, if you put the time in early on you probably would not have needed to hold them back.  At 18, senior year, anyone who has checked out, isn't going to put effort in when kids are 18/senior year.  Be real.[/quote]

Be real? What?  My 18 year old senior crushed it.  In academics, sports, socially, everything.  Happy kid has had a great freshman year at Princeton so far as well.  [/quote]

And, be real.  If you sent him on time, he probably would have crushed it too.  But, you choose to infantile him by holding him back.  He would have been crushing it as a sophomore where he should be.[/quote]

You are a fool. You know nothing of my kid, let alone where he stood 13 years ago, family genetics with respect to maturing, etc, etc, etc ad infinitum.  You just blather generalities.  You have no idea where he should be and you have no idea, really about anything.  Typical seldom right but never in doubter.  [/quote]

Right.. anything to justify the situation.  Maturing... you didn't even give your kid the chance.  [b]I hope you had him in therapy if he was that immature. [/b] He needed support not held back.[/quote]

Oh my God. Are you the same freak show who in a previous thread told me  that since my late summer kid was socially and emotionally not ready for kindergarten, I should have put him through a full neuropsych evaluation and gotten him therapy, instead of.. just waiting a year? Despite the fact that just waiting a year got him exactly where he needed to be?

Your passion for pathologizing normal variations in development  is truly terrifying. [/quote]

If your child had social and emotional delays, yes, you should have gotten them help.  Maybe you are why they were so delayed.[/quote]

That’s right, sunshine, he had some kind of delay that was completely remediated by… waiting 12 months.

If waiting 12 months solves the problem without further intervention, I’m completely baffled why you think subjecting a child to extensive testing and therapy is somehow a better solution. Other than, of course, the violation of your invented natural law dictating a 12 month span in the classroom. As if multi-age classrooms haven’t been the practice for the greater part of human history…[/quote]

It was not waiting 12 month.  You put him with younger peers so he’s never had the chance to catch up.  You failed him by ignoring it and holding him back. So, what looks to you as maturity is immaturity as he is being compared to with kids a year younger.  [/quote]

Do you even have kids? Young kids mature a TON in 12 months. Even 6 months makes a big difference. 
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Right, which is why it's understandable that someone whose spring/summer birthday child is on track and doesn't need to be held back from kindergarten might have pause when people with April/May/whatever birthdays redshirt their kids[/quote]

Why? Just worry about your own kids. 
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That's the crux of why redshirting is irritating.  The snowplowers say, "It's the right thing for Larlo."  But it affects the other kids too.  So people care.[/quote]

Are you unable to comprehend basic concepts? Do not go to private schools that redshirt in admissions if you disagree with their admissions policies. Or stop whining about the admissions policies of schools you pay for your children to attend.

The entitlement of anti-redshirters is off the charts. It’s just ridiculous. [/quote]

The entitlement of those that hold their kids back is off the charts.  Even sadder that they cannot be bothered investing the time and money in helping their kids catch up and their solution is to take away a year of their life by aging them down.[/quote]

DS was redshirted by the admissions committee upon acceptance. Wishing yours good luck![/quote]

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